George Lipsitz is professor and chair
of the Department of American Studies at the University of California,
Santa Cruz. He is the author of American Studies in a Moment
of Danger, a provocative book about the changes in culture,
social movements, and the state prompted by the increasing power
of transnational capital. His other books include Rainbow
at Midnight: Labor and Culture in the 1940s, a book about
shop floor activism, working class culture, and the massive
strike wave that shook the United States in the years immediately
after World War II; A Life in the Struggle: Ivory Perry
and the Culture of Opposition, the biography of Ivory Perry,
a Black worker and community activist from St. Louis; The
Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit
from Identity Politics, an unflinching look at white supremacy
which probes into the ways that race determines life chances
and structures experience in the contemporary United States;
Dangerous Crossroads: Popular Music, Postmodernism, and
the Poetics of Place, an intelligent survey of world music's
inter-cultural fusions; Time Passages, a book that
examines the relationship between historical memory and commercial
culture, and discusses popular television, music, and film.
Lipsitz also serves as editor of the Critical American Studies
series at the University of Minnesota Press, which recently
published Singlejack Solidarity, a collection of writings
by longtime labor activist Stan Weir.